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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "One Billion Shoppers" (1998) and follow publication order through all 24 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
One Billion Shoppers
1998
North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula - A Modern History
2005
Through the Looking Glass
2009
Oil on Water: Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China (With: Sam Chambers)
2010
Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Are Changing a Nation (With: Matthew Crabbe)
2010
The Old Shanghai A–Z
2010
Midnight in Peking
2012
Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking
2012
The Badlands: More Stories from Midnight in Peking
2012
Betrayal in Paris
2014
Our Supreme Leader: The Making of Kim Jong-un
2016
Man’s Fate – Andre Malraux’s Shanghai of the Absurd
2016
Gypsies of Shanghai
2016
"Peking is Like Paris"
2016
My Kind of Crime: Reviews for The Life Sentence
2016
Censoring Lady Chatterley in Shanghai
2017
Destination Shanghai
2018
City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
2018
Bloody Saturday
2018
Murders of Old China
2019
Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao
2021
Destination Peking
2022
Her Lotus Year
2024
Ding
2013
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